DAVIS, Calif. - To Ron Ringen, a retired veterinarian, roadkill is a calling.

加利福尼亚州，戴维斯——对于退休的兽医朗·瑞根来说，处理高速公路上被车撞死的动物是一个使命。

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Perhaps the client has a calling, something important to share with the world.

或许客户受到号召，要向别人分享些重要的东西。

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Others might feel like they have a calling, but it's not quite clear what it is.

而其他人可能觉得自己有这样的追求，但是并不清楚是什么。

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And President Yoweri Museveni recently joined other east African leaders in calling for a mission with twenty thousand troops.

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But Milton's calling -- this is what John Milton knew his calling was to be a famous English poet, a famous English poet writing in English: a calling that he holds despite the fact that he appears to have written next to nothing in English verse.

但弥尔顿知道上帝对他的召唤,是成为一个有名的英语诗人，一个用英语写作的英语诗人：,他必须服从这个召唤,尽管他看上去不会写任何英语诗歌。

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Milton was always wrestling with the problem of vocation in all of its meanings, and the problem of what a calling actually is and how one actually knows one has a calling is a problem that pulsates somewhere beneath most of the lines of poetry that Milton writes.

弥尔顿经常纠结于这两个,含义，以及到底什么是神的招唤,还有人们是怎么知道他被召唤了,这些问题反复出现在,弥尔顿的诗句中。

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Both firms had one project coordinator overseeing a calling agent selling customer-relations software to medium-size businesses.

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For starters, they keep their program pretty open to those with a calling to volunteer.

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Photojournalist Andrew McGregor decided that teaching his craft to others in struggling nations was a calling.

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